Jon Collins

Yeah, like I'm going to protect you over others.

Like there's a special kind of bond, a new flesh, a new familial bond will be made.

And then the rest of the Bible shows all of these situations where that isn't the case and it is kind of going awry.

Now, that doesn't mean that it's always rosy.

But when you get to Lamech and he takes two wives and now this becomes about, well, wives are now my property and it's not about this union with the other.

It just gets distorted.

And so polygamy becomes this distorted reality.

And so then the question becomes, well, why?

Why is God so focused on this?

And one thing you pointed out was marriage becomes the main metaphor or a pretty primary metaphor for how God relates with Israel.

Covenant people.

Covenant people.

And that whole story is about how God wants marriage.

To have a relationship with all the people, bring blessing to all the people.

And so he's going to focus on the one.

Yeah.

On behalf of the many.

On behalf of the many.

Yeah.

He limits himself to the one.